deucalion in English

noun
1
the son of Prometheus. With his wife Pyrrha he survived a flood sent by Zeus to punish human wickedness; they were then instructed to throw stones over their shoulders, and these turned into humans to repopulate the world.

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1. Though the Bible mentions eight Flood survivors, in Greek legend only Deucalion and his wife, Pyrrha, survived.

2. 19 Then Deucalion and Pyrrha, entering a temple defaced with slime, approached the enkindled altar and, falling prostrate, prayed for guidance and aid.

3. It was in the time of Ogyges though, that a flood devastated Boeotia, possibly the Great Deluge linked with Deucalion and Pyrrha; and hence Cadmus …

4. Both that territory and Peloponnesian Achaea own their names to Achaeus 1, son of Xuthus 1, brother of Aeolus 1 and son of Hellen 1, son of Deucalion 1, the man who survived the Flood

5. The Philemon-Baucis belongs to the tradition of flood stories whose prime Greek example is the tale of Deucalion and Pyrrha.o0 The major religious aspects of the Philemon-Baucis - theodicy, flood story, tree cult - owe nothing to Callimachus' Hecale

6. Hellen, Graikos, Magnes, and Macedon were sons of Deucalion and Pyrrha, the only people who survived the Great Flood; the ethne were said to have originally been named Graikoi after the elder son but later renamed Hellenes after Hellen who was proved to be the strongest.

7. Aetolus (Ancient Greek: Αἰτωλός) was, in Greek mythology, a son of Endymion, grandson of Deucalion, and a Naiad nymph, or Iphianassa.12 According to Pausanias, his mother was called Asterodia, Chromia or Hyperippe.3 He was married to Pronoe, by whom he had two sons, Pleuron and Calydon